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Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Syst. Nat., 10th ed. vol.1 p.54

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Mammalia
order
Didelphimorphia
family
Didelphidae
genus
Didelphis
species
Didelphis marsupialis

Name

Homonyms
Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus, 1758
Common names
Black-eared Opossum in English
Chucha | Comadreja | Fara in Spanish
Common Opossum in English
Common Opossum in English
Common Opossum in English
Common Opossum in English
Common Opossum in English
Common Opossum in English
Common opossum in language.
Manicou in language.
Northern Black-eared Opossum in English
Northern Black-eared Opossum in English
Northern Black-eared Opossum in English
Opossum commun in French
Pian à oreilles noires, Opossum commun, Grande Sarigue in French
SchwarzohrOpossum in German
Southern Opossum in English
Südopossum in German
Tlacuache sureño in Spanish
Tlacuache sureño in Spanish
Zariglieya de orejas negras septentrional in language.
common opossum in English
gambá in Portuguese
gambá-de-orelha-preta in Portuguese
mucura in Portuguese
mucura in Portuguese
saruê in Portuguese
Common Opossum in English
Black-eared Opossum in English
Comadreja Grande in Spanish
Sarigue Australe in French
Southern Opossum in English

Bibliographic References

  1. ALBERICO M, A CADENA, JI HERNÁNDEZ-CAMACHO y Y MUÑOZ-SABA. 2000b. Mamíferos (Synapsida: Theria) de Colombia. Biota Colombiana 1:43-75. ref_scmas0005
  2. Biomodelos. (2018). Laboratorio de Biogeografía Aplicada. Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. Disponible en: http://biomodelos.humboldt.org.co
  3. Garcés Restrepo, M. F., Quintero Ángel, A., Cuéllar, N., & Giraldo, A. (2016). Mammal Diversity in an Area with Relicts of Dry Forest in the Mid-Magdalena Valley (Caldas, Colombia). Revista de Ciencias, 20(2). Garcés Restrepo, M. F., Quintero Ángel, A., Cuéllar, N., & Giraldo, A.
  4. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Direction 22 Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology of (a) the specific names of fifty-seven species, each of which is the type species of a genus in the class Mammalia, the name of which was placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936, and (B) of the specific names of two species belonging to the same class, each of which is currently regarded as the oldest available name for the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed on the Official List in the same period.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1C(C13), 179-200 (1955)
  5. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207.
  6. Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142.
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